How Corporations “Get Away With Murder” to Inflate Prices on Rent, Food, and Electricity
Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are jacking up prices far beyond their cost increases.
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Brussels Provides Not-So-Subtle Input on Italy’s Next Government
By Conor Gallagher While incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy Party (Fdl) certainly provide plenty of nationalist and culture war sound bites, they will ultimately be forced to follow EU and NATO marching orders, or they won’t be in power very long. Now that two cabinet picks from Meloni and […]
Read more...The Sveriges Riksbank Counterfeit Nobel Award Goes to Bernanke et al. for the Wrong Model
Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort
Read more...Is the UK About to Hit the Wall?
The UK is in sorry shape…..and is looking like the canary in the economic coal mine.
Read more...Why the Soviet Union Imploded
The Soviet Union depended on energy sales and consumer production stagnated. Reforms promoted the rise of oligarchs and the 1990s free fall.
Read more...What Social Security Should Really Be Paying to Survive in This Economy
Inadequate cost of living adjustments are nevertheless giving Social Security gutters new talking points.
Read more...Biden Administration Doubles Down on Sanctions Self-Harm: China Chip Export Ban, Possible Russia Aluminum Sanctions, All Systems Still Go with Russian Oil Price Cap
The sanctions war situation has developed not necessarily to America’s advantage.
Read more...Central Bank Myths Drag Down World Economy
Central bank dogma over inflation is pushing the world economy into recession, with many dire consequences for poorer countries.
Read more...Big Agriculture Casts Itself as Climate Champion Ahead of COP27
Critics say the US-led Aim4C coalition will sideline nature-friendly farming in favour of polluting status quo agriculture.
Read more...The U.S. Is Preparing Its Response to the “Short-Sighted” Strategy of OPEC+
The US is having a hissy over the OPEC+ production cut. Not a good look.
Read more...Brexit Britain Is All Alone in a Senseless Pursuit of Disaster Capitalism
As other nations return to state-led investment, Truss and Kwarteng act to weaken the democracy, economy and rights of Britain.
Read more...How Cloud Services Allow Tech Titans to Act as Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
Regulators largely ignore the cloud services industry, despite high concentration, lack of transparency, and potential for predation.
Read more...The Inevitable Financial Crisis
We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.
Read more...The Lancet Commission on Lessons for the Future from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Review
The Lancet Commission unintentionally shows that neolibealism helped cause the horrific public health response to Covid-19
Read more...Burning Books (or Rather Book Companies)
Silence is ultimately the opposite of what any decent book or book publisher stands for.
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